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Today is yet another important day in the history of OpenStack. The initial list of founding organizations for the independent OpenStack foundation has been announced and we, at Mirantis, are proud to be on that list.
While there is a lot to talk about on what this means for the infrastructure cloud market, I’d like to focus on what this means …

When I first heard the announcement about Cloud.com being spun off into the Apache foundation, my initial reaction was to interpret the event as a hostile move by one of the OpenStack community insiders. Citrix is one of the founding members of OpenStack, with representation on the project policy board; the company has been quite active evangelizing the community through …